Gell, William: Pompeiana: the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii ; the result of excavations since 1819 ; in two volumes (Band 2) (London, 1832)

APPENDIX.

No. I.

SUPPOSED LIBRARY.

This chamber, which is entered from the portico of the
inner court or peristyle of the house of the Tragic Poet, and
lies on the left of it, is nearly of the same dimensions as those
opening into the atrium and the tablinum.

If books had been as numerous in the first century after
Christ as they have become since the invention of printing,

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